Why the Leather Cover Crashes the Kindle 3
Found on Connectify on Monday, 20 December 2010
I was in the middle of writing a blog post about how great the Kindle 3 and Connectify work together (which I will post in the next day or two), but started having a problem with my Kindle crashing randomly.
It didn't seem to make a lot of sense that a leather cover would crash an electronic device, so I got curious and started to look closely at my Kindle's case.
Once a bit of paint has rubbed off the hooks, power starts flowing through the cover, leading to brownouts.
A really smart move to make the hooks from a single piece of metal when the sockets for exactly those hooks work as a power supply.